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Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper

… Comment No. 14, The right to the highest attainable standard of health, E/C.12/2000/4 (2000), para. 11; CESCR, … 15 must furnish specific information on emissions and emission reduction measures, and the Kyoto Protocol provides … respectively. Under the CDM, States can receive additional emission credits if they set up schemes to combat climate …
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Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments

… measures, in order to ensure, inter alia, that: (a) The emission of pollutants is prevented, controlled and reduced … is minimized. 2. To this end, each Party shall set emission limits for discharges from point sources into … a proper balance between resource development for a higher standard of living for their people and conservation and …
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Global Land Outlook

… of tenure, economic development, and peace. As mentioned, standard approaches to formalizing land tenure, which focus … reduces access to nutrients,56 and can result in the emission of methane.57 Long-term reduced or conservation … Elastic and plastic soil deformation and its influence on emission of greenhouse gases. International Agrophysics 30: …
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GEO yearbook 2003

… deaths and birth defects are now outlawed. The Wastewater Emission Targets – Water, Sanitation and Hygiene campaign … species. The US introduces new policies to reduce the emission of tiny particulates in recognition of the harmful … 99 million inhabitants, where the national air quality standard for fine particulate matter was violated. Within …
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Sources of international water law

… indication or reference to freshwaters which meet the standard illustrated at the outset of this Foreword, or to a … measures, in order to ensure, inter alia that: (a) the emission of pollutants is prevented, controlled and reduced … is minimized. 2. To this end, each Party shall set emission limits for discharges from point sources into …
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Change : Adaptation of water resources management to climate change

… to improve environmental conditions, increase the standard of living, create jobs and increase income. Healthy … management, is a process rather than a specific package of standard procedures and solutions. In all cases it has to …
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Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… right to water, as part of the human right to an adequate standard of living.181 Although the precise content of the … agreement’s equivalent of the “equitable and reasonable” standard involves a situation subject to an MEA. Developments … a State has violated the right to life or an adequate standard of living. This issue is directly relevant to the …
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Water as a human right?

… Art. 25 proclaims “[e]veryone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of … an indication of certain factors essential for an adequate standard of living. Satisfying the standards of the … and thereby contribute further to climate change. The emission of GHGs from reservoirs due to rotting vegetation …
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Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources

… The first approach prescribes a specific quality standard for a particular watercourse, effectively … techniques for providing in principle the basis for emission limit values designed to prevent and, where that is … in relation to a discharge of a contaminant or an emission of noise, means the best method for preventing or …
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The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment

… of the no significant harm rule, the same evidentiary standard is typically required to establish the degree of … explicitly impose the “may cause significant harm” standard in their provisions related to the prevention, … For example, in seeking to implement a no significant harm standard to activities related to the utilization of a …
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